physiological aspects

Draws on the latest research from neuroscience to explore our complex relationship with food and the sensory, psychological, and physiological facts that influence our eating habits. Examines cravings, triggers, comfort food, and the role personality plays in food preferences.

Sadako, hospitalized with leukemia, races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes in an attempt to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Lawyer Penny Harrigan is surprised when she is courted and seduced by billionaire entrepreneur Cornelius Linus Maxwell. But after Maxwell spends 136 days bringing her to new heights of sexual gratification and then breaks up with her, Penny discovers that Maxwell is planning to release a new product that will turn women into sex-obsessed zombies and render men obsolete.

Explains the mechanics of speech, what body parts are used, and how different sounds are formed.

Introduces middle school students to physical fitness, covering the benefits of physical activity, aerobics, sports, flexibility, muscle fitness, body composition, and other related topics.

Presents camera footage following the creation of a human life from conception to birth, showing the inside of the reproductive organs, the journey of the ovum to the uterus, sperm passing the cervix, cell differentiation, and the growth of the embryo into a fetus, and includes computer animation of the transmission of genetic material to the child.

Discover the thrilling story of how you were made, from the moment of conception to the moment of birth 280 days later.

The author considers statistics, physics, and physiology to determine the potential for human performance, examining how high someone can dunk a basketball, how much weight a person can bench press, the speed at which a human can run, and related questions.

Explains how the latest biological research findings can be applied to student-teacher dynamics in the classroom and in American culture, discussing how new information about how the brain works can help teachers better prepare their students for learning.

Step after step for 26.2 miles, hundreds of thousands of people run marathons. But why?what compels people past pain, lost toenails, 5.30 am start times, The Wall? Sports writer Matt Fitzgerald set out to run eight marathons in eight weeks across the country to answer that question. At each race, he meets an array of runners, from first timers, to dad-daughter teams and spouses, to people who'd been running for decades, and asks them what keeps them running. But there is another deeply personal part to Matt's journey: his own relationship to the sport?and how it helped him overcome his own struggles and cope with his wife Nataki's severe bipolar disorder.